On 21 Mar 2011, at 16:33, Anton Matheis wrote:

> 
> Hello Magnolians,
> 
> we have a Magnolia 4.3.8 project in which we needed multi step forms.
> Because at that time, 4.4 wasn't released, we built our own extensions
> to 4.3.8 to handle multi step. Apart from that, we have some
> non-trivial validation tasks that could not be dealt with by using the
> magnolia intern validation architecture.
> 
> We now consider upgrading to 4.4. The problem is: the magnolia form
> module changed considerably and thus the architecture on which we
> built our module.
> Rewriting our form module would be quite time intense. To avoid that,
> we thought about integrating the actual Stk version (1.4.2) with the
> old form module version 1.1.2.
> 
> Do you think that might be possible?

The only possible way to know would be for you to try it. It all depends on 
which features you use. For example, I know for a fact that the login/logout 
templates, which have been changed with stk 1.4.x, will break with form module 
1.1. Others might still work.

Have you considered using form 1.2 for multi-step ? Are your extensions that 
different from what we've done ? If so - can you provide some details ? It 
might be interesting to see how such things could be migrated.

As for the validation - if anything, it should be simpler/more flexible now. 
And if not, we'd love to improve this too. Can you provide some examples of 
where it would be difficult for you to upgrade to 1.2 ?

That's why open-source is great: I'm sure your extensions/improvements would be 
extremely useful to others too, and could have been integrated in the product 
by now. You should consider contributing them ;)


Cheers,

-g



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